A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 eBook

[Footnote 182: These observations are to be considered
as applying entirely to the earlier connection of
the English with India. In more modern days there
has been a sufficiently copious series of great actions,
battles, sieges, and conquests; but these belong to
a different and more modern period than that now under
review, and are more connected with the province of
political military and naval history, than with a
Collection of Voyages and Travels. Yet these likewise
will require to be noticed in an after division of
this work.—­E.]

[Footnote 183: A commencement towards this great
desideratum in English History has been lately made,
by the publication of the early History of the English
East India Company, by John Bruce, Esquire, Historiographer
to the Company.—­E.]

SECTION I.

Second Voyage of the English to Barbary, in the
year 1552, by Captain Thomas Windham[184].

Of the first voyage to Barbary without the straits,
made by the same Captain Thomas Wyndham, the only
remaining record is in a letter from James Aldaie
to Michael Locke, already mentioned in the Introduction
to this Chapter, and preserved in Hakluyt’s
Collection, II. 462. According to Hakluyt, the
account of this second voyage was written by James
Thomas, then page to Captain Thomas Windham, chief
captain of the voyage, which was set forth by Sir
John Yorke, Sir William Gerard, Sir Thomas Wroth,
Messieurs Frances Lambert, Cole, and others.—­E.

[Footnote 184: Hakluyt, II. 463. Astley,
I. 140.]

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The ships employed on this voyage were three, of which
two belonged to the River Thames. These were
the Lion of London of about 150 tons, of which Thomas
Windham was captain and part owner; and the Buttolfe
of about 80 tons. The third was a Portuguese
caravel of about 60 tons, bought from some Portuguese
at Newport in Wales, and freighted for the voyage.
The number of men in the three ships was 120.
The master of the Lion was John Kerry of Minehead
in Somersetshire, and his mate was David Landman.
Thomas Windham, the chief captain of the Adventure,
was a gentleman, born in the county of Norfolk, but
resident at Marshfield Park in Somersetshire.

The fleet set sail from King-road near Bristol about
the beginning of May 1552, being on a Monday morning;
and on the evening of the Monday fortnight we came
to anchor in the port of Zafia or Asafi on the coast
of Barbary, in 32 deg. N. where we landed part
of our cargo to be conveyed by land to the city of
Marocco. Having refreshed at this port, we went
thence to the port of Santa-Cruz, where we landed the
rest of our goods, being a considerable quantity of
linen and woollen cloth, with coral, amber, jet, and
divers other goods esteemed by the Moors. We found
a French ship in the road of Santa-Cruz, the people
on board which being uncertain whether France and